PBDB Collection

Jägala (= Jäga or Jaggowal) (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Probably waterfall section 25 km east of Tallinn, near the Jägala-Joa village. is falling from an escarpment in valley of the Jägala River.

Where: Harjumaa, Estonia (59.4° N, 25.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 2.6° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus conodont zone, Loobu Formation, Kunda (469.2 - 464.3 Ma)

• Given as lower Linsen Shale. Probably Ubari member.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomitic, glauconitic, gray, yellow limestone

• grey to yellowish-grey thick-bedded dolomitized limestone with glauconite,

•with abundant phosphatic discontinuity surfaces, brachiopods and cephalopods. (See Meidla 2008: Stop B1: Jägala Waterfall section. pp. 98-100 in Hints et al. The Seventh Baltic Stratigraphical Conference.)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Koken and J. Perner. 1925. Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs 1-324 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154840: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
Lichida - Lichidae	"Lichas (Lichas) verrucosus" = Metopolichas verrucosus² "Lichas (Lichas) verrucosus" = Metopolichas verrucosus² Eichwald 1842 trilobite
Gastropoda
Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae	"Lesueurilla helix" = Lesueurilla infundibulum, "Eccyliopterus tenuissimus n. sp." = Eccyliopterus regularis, "Raphistoma qualteriatum" = Pararaphistoma qualteriata "Lesueurilla helix" = Lesueurilla infundibulum Koken 1896 snail "Eccyliopterus tenuissimus n. sp." = Eccyliopterus regularis Remelé 1888 snail "Raphistoma qualteriatum" = Pararaphistoma qualteriata von Schlotheim 1820 snail
Euomphalina - Ophiletidae	"Lytospira huenei n. sp." = Lytospira angelini "Lytospira huenei n. sp." = Lytospira angelini Lindström 1884 snail
Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae	"Bucania macera n. sp." = Salpingostoma macera "Bucania macera n. sp." = Salpingostoma macera Koken and Perner 1925 snail
Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae	"Gonionema gradatum" = Proturritella bicarinata "Gonionema gradatum" = Proturritella bicarinata Wahlenberg 1821 snail
Murchisoniina - Straparollinidae	"? Holopea nitida" = Straparollina nitida "? Holopea nitida" = Straparollina nitida Koken and Perner 1925 snail
Rhynchonellata
Orthida - Lycophoriidae	Lycophoria globosa² Lycophoria globosa² Eichwald 1829
Orthida - Orthidae	Rogorthis pakriensis¹ Rogorthis pakriensis¹ Rubel 1961
Conodonta
Prioniodontida - Balognathidae	Prioniodus elegans² Prioniodus elegans² conodont
Orthisina
-	"Gonambonites inflexus" = Orthisina inflexa² "Gonambonites inflexus" = Orthisina inflexa² Pander 1830

¹Hints 2014; ²Rubel 1961